70+ Niels Bohr Quotes | Minimalist Quotes

Every sentence I utter must be understood not as an affirmation, but as a question.
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Myself Science Understand
If quantum mechanics hasn’t profoundly shocked you, you haven’t understood it yet.
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Science Understand Yourself
All rising curves that show unwelcome trends in human affairs will approach infinity if extended far enough, but it is we who dictate the curve and not vice versa.
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Enough Human Rise Science Vice
Isolated material particles are abstractions, their properties being definable and observable only through their interaction with other systems .
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Material Property Science
When we measure something we are forcing an undetermined, undefined world to assume an experimental value. We are not measuring the world, we are creating it.
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Creation Force Science Value World
Some things are so serious, they can only be joked about.
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Funny Joke Science Serious
When searching for harmony in life one must never forget that in the drama of existence we are ourselves both actors and spectators.
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Drama Existence Forget Life Ourselves Peace Search
Of course I don’t believe in it pointing to horseshoe on his office wall. But I understand that it brings you luck whether you believe in it or not.
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Believe Faith Understand Wall Yourself
An independant reality in the ordinary physical sense can neither be ascribed to the phenomenon nor to the agencies of observation.
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Agency Independent Ordinary Reality
A physicist is just an atom’s way of looking at itself.
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Science Way
Your theory is crazy, but it’s not crazy enough to be true.
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Crazy Enough Science Technology Theory True Yourself
A deep truth is a truth so deep that not only is it true but it’s exact opposite is also true.
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Deep Science Truth Wisdom
Accuracy and clarity of statement are mutually exclusive.
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Science Support
Never express yourself more clearly than you are able to think.
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Expression Inspirational Science Thinking
Our task is not to penetrate the essence of things, the meaning of which we do not know anyway, but rather to develop concepts which allow us to talk in a productive way about phenomena in nature
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Development Nature Ourselves Talk
The opposite of every great idea is another great idea.
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Greatness Ideas One Liner
Einstein, stop telling God what to do!
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Funny God One Liner
Prediction is very difficult, especially if it’s about the future.
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Difficult Future Time
Anyone who can contemplate quantum mechanics without getting dizzy hasn’t understood it.
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Science Understand
Nothing exists until it is measured.
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Existence One Liner
It is not enough to be wrong, one must also be polite.
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Enough Polite Wrong
You must come to Copenhagen to work with us. We like people who can actually perform thought experiments!
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Experiement People Science Work Yourself
No paradox, no progress.
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One Liner Progress Science
There are trivial truths and the great truths. The opposite of a trivial truth is plainly false. The opposite of a great truth is also true.
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Deep Fake Greatness Truth Wisdom
Opposites are not contradictory but complementary.
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Education Learning Science
The present state of atomic theory is characterized by the fact that we not only believe the existence of atoms to be proved beyond a doubt, but also we even believe that we have an intimate knowledge of the constituents of the individual atoms.
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Believe Beyond Character Doubt Knowledge Science Theory
Oh what idiots we have all been, this is just as it must be.
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Idiot Spiritual

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